The most popular Java tools for every phase of development

 Just because a tool is the most popular doesn’t mean it’s the “best.” What’s best is always context-dependent in programming. However, popularity is an undeniably important metric when choosing between a handful of similar tools. It’s not the popularity itself that adds to a tool’s value; it’s the greater supply of resources and support from the larger community of a given tool. know more java training

Popular tools are easier to learn because so many people can help you use them. And popular open-source tools tend to be less buggy because more eyes are on the code and more people are testing it in a greater number of scenarios.

So, while there’s always a counterpoint like Apache and Nginx—two web servers: Apache is used on many more websites, but Nginx is used more by the top sites on the web, which means its used by some of the best engineering teams—in a lot of cases, popularity can be a key differentiator between tools.

This list covers most of the important things you need tools for when developing Java applications. It covers each category by providing the “Top” most popular tool, and also provides a “Runner-up,” with some context and citations from large Java community surveys proving these placements. Java beginners should have a look at all of these top tools to get more familiar with the ecosystem. know more java training

While new Java apps and primary apps are written in Java 8 now, a good amount of existing Java apps are still Java 7 or 6.

I won’t wade into the Java EE vs. Spring competition, because the stats on that are always in dispute, but they appear to be fairly close in user numbers. About a third of developers using either one also use the other simultaneously.

Editor or IDE

Top: (in dispute) Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA

Runner-up: Netbeans

Eclipse and Netbeans are both free and open source. Eclipse is well known for its large community and wealth of plugins (they're easy to write), which make the platform endlessly extensible but slow to load and cumbersome at times. Netbeans differentiates itself by coming with things such as Maven and Git integration out of box. IntelliJ has the performance and polish of a commercial product. It has both free and paid versions. know more java training

Application server

Top: Tomcat

Runner-up: Wildfly

Tomcat has been the most used Java application server for many years. It’s lightweight and doesn’t try to implement all of the Java EE specs. In some surveys, Jetty, another lightweight app server, is ahead of Wildfly—the top Java EE-supporting app server.

Version control system

Top: Git

Runner-up: Subversion

Remember, Git is more flexible than just using GitHub and its conventions for version control. Git seems to have pretty much won the version control wars, with most of the Subversion and CVS users being developers caught in a suite of legacy tools.

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